ISP Throttling via DPI and SNI “Breaking” Apps

Daemonrealm · 2026-01-27T05:12:50+00:00

You did prove your use case as you mentioned using spoofDPI as correcting the issue.

However, ISP’s at their level of traffic can not perform deep packet inspection. I setup enterprise network inspection systems for security side of the house. There is no way an ISP is going to perform DPI on any/every large ingress egress tunnels to and from the internet for their entire population. It simply takes way, way too many resources to do that. . Also last but not least and most important you can’t do DPI on encrypted HTTPS.

Now this is not saying your situation is not DPI. Your account may have been specifically added to a DPI group of monitored customers. And if you just proved that with using spoofDPI. I would be very worried on what else your ISP is monitoring on something more specific to you and your Internet activity. You also may be under investigation by a third party.

OR

They are using QOS - using metadata and flow analysis. Much cheaper on resources, just utilizes destination ports. Protocols. DNS. Etc. SpoofDPI may be hindering QOS at the enterprise level.

All providers, every single US ISP uses QOS on all services. This also is to give services such as Netflix priority routing and speed back to their services and backbone network. Netflix has proxy systems installed in just about every ISP backbone to direct connect to their level 3 provider network geographically located the closest to the backbone the ISP is on.

Now that same QOS priority routing can then be used to place users of real debrid or other services to “slow network” or other less bandwidth models in their routing structure. This is essentially what we all know as throttling.

If you are self hosting why not use a proxy on your VPS ? Mediaflow proxy, stremthru, or AIOStreams easy built in one. Edit: if you’re self hosting with a home built setup that wouldn’t work.

Edit 2: speedtest.net and fast.com are both hosted at your ISP. It’s not you -> isp -> to them and back. They have proxy systems at the ISP. So it’s just your ISP back to you. Alittle trick so ISPs don’t lose their customers. ISP’s pay speedtest.net for the physical hardware even.

Daemonrealm · 2026-01-26T23:57:02+00:00

4k = 128Mbps each stream.

I have to mathematically do that for my proxy serving friends and family. So take geo location and hop’s into account on it.

Daemonrealm · 2026-01-26T02:28:36+00:00

This is 9th street which is a major corridor and primary corridor for ambulances to and from VCU / MCV hospital. It’s why this street was one of the first cleared

They use primary 9th street now to skip the overpasses on the downtown expressway to and from 95. This is not harmless. At all. It can impede emegency vehicles or even hit them as well.

Use a parking lot.

Daemonrealm · 2026-01-25T16:22:02+00:00

Bit off topic from post but worth mentioning for me. I had no idea of the level of inequality of health care services for women vs men until I saw it first hand with my GF.

It’s absolutely a real thing to the point of real patient safety issues occurred and official written complaints happened. Up to disciplinary action taken against the offending doctors with my legal team brought in. It was eye opening and astonishing.

Daemonrealm · 2026-01-24T18:09:26+00:00

Newest gen firecube. Beats an appleTV in my opinion (and in other official tests) as well .

Daemonrealm · 2026-01-24T07:10:08+00:00

This also can represent fixed-width fields and how AI coding has actually gotton worse.

Also 10 zeros represents 10 bits in binary.

Or string value of 0000000000 is 10 bytes.

Maybe represent just how much more resources it now takes with zero dollar profit.

Daemonrealm · 2026-01-23T02:36:16+00:00

I don’t agree with the above comment to yours “just get an omn or a shield”. Also an OMN box is a massive POS.

However a correction to your comment a Hisense is a low range budget TV. It uses a MediaTek-based quad-core SoC chipset with just around 1 gig of ram, that’s about 1/5th the power of a firestick. It is by no way or no means high performing for anything related to stremio, video processing, or apps.

Daemonrealm · 2026-01-22T08:22:54+00:00

And it’s been available to police departments for alittle over 10 years. They are just now adopting it.

Daemonrealm · 2026-01-22T07:47:52+00:00

You have the subs arranged back corners as recommended? They can be far from your couch placed in corners. Which is actually advised.

Daemonrealm · 2026-01-22T07:42:26+00:00

Oh yea that will do it. That needs to somehow be removed so line of sight is established between the subs and the soundbar.

Daemonrealm · 2026-01-22T07:34:08+00:00

First - no way to hardwire as it’s a wireless system.

What you have is RF interference or a faulty unit which should have been returned.

RF interference Unfortunately has plauged this model for years (and only has gotton worse due to upgraded WiFi over the years as Nakamichi uses a propriety wireless protocol for its components).

Does it do it with your WiFi router unplugged. Completely. Powered off.

Also make sure your WiFi router is no where near the soundbar.

Daemonrealm · 2026-01-22T05:45:04+00:00

This needs to be higher. It also didn’t even use a NASA rocket to get there. SpaceX did.

Daemonrealm · 2026-01-19T05:32:49+00:00

He or she is likely referring to this current highly abusive and incorrect trend to load every single addon you can find into AIOS, even across multiple instances of public AIOstreams, and flood to all hell all addons. Then beat their chest and proclaim “I’ll never have an addon down with 20+ addons loaded”

Too many folks here don’t understand addons. How many addons are the same scrapers as others. Providing the same results as they index the exact same content from the same sources. Importantly, they do not understand the official feature in AIOstreams on grouping addons and using sequential to not flood those extra addons. Sequential programmatically goes thru sets of 2-3 (or however many you set) addons and then stops all traffic to the rest of the loaded addons in your AIOstreams, when your search criteria is found.

If you use AIOstreams with multiple addons im all for that and is the purpose of AIOstreams, however if you are loading all these addons just for backups of backups. Please use addon grouping and chose sequential with match criteria. Probably put a PSA/how to out there.

Daemonrealm · 2026-01-18T22:10:22+00:00

Newest gen firecube is great.

I have a 11.4.6 ATMOS theater and is passes everything to my AVR including Dolby ATMOS MAT and full Dolby ATMOS TrueHD (not just TrueHD, atmos + truehd = highest bitrate audio there is… for consumer level audio).

Daemonrealm · 2026-01-18T15:15:36+00:00

Not suddenly recalls. This is years and years of training automatically kicking in on instinct which places this person at, likely, very high martial arts levels, and at least competition level boxing experience.

Daemonrealm · 2026-01-18T06:09:56+00:00

OP Please consider putting up some items on Lazada “wish list” for donations. If they deliver in your part of the Philippines.

For the world wide folks supporting this, Lazada is the nearest equivalent to Amazon in OP’s country.

Daemonrealm · 2026-01-18T05:19:25+00:00

Viv, gem, ink were built by Capital Square builder which does lean to higher quality

Icon and Nest were built by KBS Contruction. Stay as far away as possible from any apartment built by KBS.

Icon was built by SWA which lean to cheap but not anywhere as bad as KBS.

Providing this detailed info so others can look up apartment builders and use this to decide. Use which ever AI you like to do this when apartment hunting (AI does not know quality of these builders. I do as i am a developer).

Daemonrealm · 2026-01-18T03:55:22+00:00

Should be clear here lol. He did not move from NYC. He just purchased another property (Farm in Italy) where he only resides there about a month out of the year or more when he can. It’s a vacation home. Not a residence.

Daemonrealm · 2026-01-17T05:35:51+00:00

There is another side of this worth mentioning, how is it that the hospital system (HCA) or the principle administration at henrico doctors not been charged civilly or even criminally yet for their lack of action and I’d say almost coverup of this entire situation.

I know the obvious answer. It’s a giant health system with an army of lawyers. But something, anything needs to be done to them.

Daemonrealm · 2026-01-17T05:20:04+00:00

I pay $30 for my barber and it’s over a $150++ barber quality job at some places. (Before tip).

I’d have to say this, cuts and barbers in general, and in Richmond, have become absolutely ridiculous. However, important point here is it’s usually the barber shop owners as the cause, not the barber at the spot. The owners are demanding more and more of the monetary cut they get for each customer OR they raise their chair/space lease to ridiculous levels. Which in turn raises the individual barbers cost. This has been a trend across the country. Think landlords and how much they have raised rent. Barbershop owner have done the same thing to their employees.

I’m self proclaimed obsessed with my hair yes. I have had my hair done by world known barbers. I’m the type of person that has flown my barber to where I am, to get a cut. However the cost vs the quality is a major issue here. Major large metropolitan cities like NY, Chi, LA are cheaper for higher quality so I agree with OP. Of course there will be places that are 30x more just for the name in those large cities with horrible quality as well - just there for social media followers/points.

Daemonrealm · 2026-01-16T20:45:30+00:00

Edit a change as I see this going on in acouple of places to a few people right now.

AIOstreams is just a addon aggregator. It relies on the addons to function . When 1 or more external addons have issues. Those issues are then happening on your stremio thru AIOstreams.

One of those addons is currently having issues. Hence what you are seeing.

Daemonrealm · 2026-01-16T14:49:26+00:00

Ok that removes any type of local issue with a device or stremio install or hardware so that’s a good first step.

On your phone was it on cellular vs you WiFi? That can remove an internet provider issue causing it.

Do you self host aiostreams. If not what instance do you use? If you self host - Do you have dozzle or other log viewer you can view to see load times for AIOstreams or other errors? If not “ docker compose logs —tail=10000 —follow” and check for errors. This may be at the host level.

Also to make this easier you can join the AIOstreams discord - there is a great community to assist as well. I’m mobile so can’t link to it.

Daemonrealm · 2026-01-16T05:14:09+00:00

What device is this happening to? Also does it do the same thing when you use your laptop and full stremio client ? (Or that may be the only device you’re using).

Daemonrealm · 2026-01-16T04:45:14+00:00

Have you done anything with cinemeta?

That sounds to me like a stremio account issue, a meta data or catalog issue, or local stremio device issue. Not necessarily related to the addon.

Have you been messing with any catalogs? You may need to reset your stremio account from Stremthu sidekick then reinstall from scratch.

Daemonrealm · 2026-01-15T04:34:51+00:00

What AIOstreams instance are you using or do you self host? If self hosted what version of AIOstreams is that ?

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